attach
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /əˈtætʃ/
attach (attaches, present participle attaching; past and past participle attached)
- (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
- Synonyms: connect, annex, affix, unite, Thesaurus:join
- Antonyms: detach, unfasten, disengage, separate, Thesaurus:disconnect
- An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
- The shoulder blade is […] attached only to the muscles.
- 1856, page 60 of "The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volumes 3-4" ↗ by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay
- A huge stone, to which the cable on the left bank was attached, was removed years later
- You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.
- (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
- Synonyms: cling, stick, Thesaurus:adhere
- The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
- Dower will attach.
- To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
- attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
- incapable of attaching a sensible man
- God […] by various ties attaches man to man.
- To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
- to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- To this treasure a curse is attached.
- (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
- (obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]
- 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2
- Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
- The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- Russian: заде́рживать
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